Change of Email Address

how to change the old email address to a a new gmail address and free up the old email address? I need to use the old email address for something else. How long does it take for the changes to take effect? thanks!

You can change your email via your account settings, here: https://wordpress.com/settings/account/ You should receive a confirmation email after updating your email address. If you don’t receive it within a few hours, let us know in a reply to this thread. Likewise, it could take a while for the old email to become available if you want to use it to register a new account.

It looks like the email address you’re trying to change to is a Gmail address. Can you confirm that the confirmation email isn’t in your Social tab? WordPress.com emails normally get filtered into the Social tab by default.

It looks like you recently changed the email address on your account to another Yahoo address, and it appears as though you were able to confirm the new address. Can you let me know if this is the case?